First rodeo? Who says the staff doesn't know what its doing, not me.
Pudge tossed out the notion that we could exceed the roster cap. I wanted him to outline with specifics within the context of the recruiting rules of just how we could do that given we have already backwards filled the 2017 class. In many past years the staff could play the backwards call fill trick to create room for surprises late in the cycle. However, we have already factored that into this cycle to get seven more, otherwise it would be four more.
So, what's the roster magic to add an eighth to this very class? because it seems to me the only magic involves adding them to the 2019 class as a deferred enrollment.
As for surprises, sure - I could see that - to replace anyone from the list of seven that falls out.